Fleeting Time Quotes

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.